Every control has it’s properties one of the common properties of controls is name property. Name property is the one by which the control is identified and it is referred as the object name of that control.

Visual Basic has three distinct modes. While you are designing the user interface and writing code, you are in design time. When you are testing and running project, you are in run time. If you get an error or pause project execution, you are in break time.

If you are a windows use,you probably appreciate and rely on ToolTips,those small labels that pop up when you pause your pointer over a toolbar button or control.You can easily add ToolTips to your projects by setting the ToolTip Text property of any control that you want to display a ToolTip.

Caption property of the Label control determines what will appear on the Label control. This Caption property is changed at run time or design time. Use can not change the Caption property of the Label control.

A format developed by the Microsoft Corporation for implementing object-oriented software components. ActiveX controls are prefabricated components based on Microsoft's COM object model, which can be employed to create new applications with little or no programming, for example by simply dragging-and-dropping them into a document, or by downloading them into a browser from a web site.

A Microsoft OBJECT LIBRARY that provides extensible, object-oriented access to data held in a variety of formats. It is intended to supplant the firm's earlier database access libraries DATA ACCESS OBJECTS and ROO, and is employed by both MICROSOFT TRANSACTION SERVER and INTERNET INFORMATION SERVER as their main means of retrieving data from both local and remote databases.

Relational operators: Relational operators are used for comparison of to variables of same data type. These operators are used in the conditions where two values are compared and true or false is returned according to test result.